New vinyl reissues: November 6, 2026

It’s turned into a very fine week in these here United States, hasn’t it? Birds are singing, folks are smiling, and music is sounding sweeter than ever. So now that the darkness has lifted, what will that mean for vinyl? Difficult to say for sure, but I think that if inflation is relieved, tariffs are reduced, and US relations with its allies are mended, vinyl prices could very likely stabilize. It’s hard to see prices going down, of course—things don’t ever really seem to work that way—but certainly the cost of materials and manufacturing (especially paper goods, if we can get back on good terms with Canada) could stop escalating at the rate they have been. And if gasoline prices stop ballooning, perhaps shipping and transportation costs could return to sensible places, easing financial strain for vinyl manufacturers, sellers, and listeners around the world. Here’s hoping.

In major vinyl-hound news, New York City institution Academy Records announced this week that they have acquired the record collection of renowned music journalist Robert Christgau. Per their Instagram post, this looks like an absolutely staggering collection, and Christgau’s storied career goes back to the late ’60s, meaning this trove includes seven decades’ worth of promos. Academy will tease parts of the collection at the WFMU Record Fair this weekend in Manhattan, with other pieces making their way to Academy’s storefront in the East Village over the next year.

The big reissue news of the week is that the business interests surrounding the Pink Floyd brand name have just announced a 50th-anniversary set for the group’s 1977 Orwellian album Animals. “Hey,” I hear you yelling at your screen, “didn’t I spend good money on a remix of Animals just a couple of years ago?” You did indeed, theoretical reader, but that’s no reason to skimp on a deluxe box set when a fortuitous anniversary date arrives. And, sucker that I am, this one sounds hard to resist, although it combines formats in a way that will likely irritate some. 

The deluxe box includes three LPs with the original 1977 album, the 2018 remix that was released in 2022, and a third LP containing five unreleased tracks, including early versions of “Dogs” and “Sheep,” a radio edit of “Sheep” that’s currently streaming now, a new track called “Young Nicholas Jon” that sounds like it’s probably a Roger Waters solo demo, and a “Studio Jam.” It also includes five CDs with all the aforementioned material, plus two discs of a live show from the Oakland Coliseum on May 9, 1977, captured by audience bootlegger Reinhard Hohlwein, a Blu-ray with all of the music plus the 2018 Dolby Atmos and 5.1 mixes, and a 64-page hardback book. The Oakland bootleg will surely be released on vinyl at a later date, probably for Record Store Day 2027, if I had to guess. There isn’t any mention of how it was spiffed up for release (Steven Wilson refurbished the surprisingly good-sounding 1975 bootleg in the Wish You Were Here 50th box set), so we’ll have to wait and see about details on that.

The 1977 mix of the album will also be available as a stand-alone vinyl release in orange and sandstone color variants, and as a 2-LP black-vinyl set with the 1977 mix and the disc of rarities. It all lands January 22 and preorders can be made here. The Wish You Were Here box from last year was a beauty, although the vinyl didn’t improve upon the original release, so this will surely be a fun object to sift through even if it doesn’t end up containing the definitive pressing of the album. I also get that people who already bought the 2018 remix have less incentive to throw down for this set, but if you’re feeling that way, the slimmed-down 2-LP edition, with the extra disc of rarities, might be the way to go.

Other new announcements this week include a fresh repress of Dolly Parton’s 1974 album Jolene, which has been in and out of print over the years but skyrocketed in value in the wake of the singer’s death in August. The album, which contains the titular hit and “I Will Always Love You,” will be back in print from Sony on December 4, as will a repress of Parton’s 2007 compilation The Very Best of Dolly Parton on two LPs. 

Also this week, the Capitol Record Club’s reissue of Luscious Jackson’s Fever In Fever Out was made available for preorder, with the release coming on November 27. This 1996 album marked the New York band’s peak, with production from Daniel Lanois and the indelible single “Naked Eye”; it was only briefly available on vinyl upon original release and has since become one of the most urgently needed reissues from the CD era. This 2-LP set spreads the album across three sides, with a fourth consisting of bonus tracks. The Capitol Record Club got off to a rocky start earlier this year with warped, noisy pressings of their inaugural release, Sparklehorse’s Good Morning Spider, but have hopefully righted the ship for this one.

Some quick housekeeping: I’ll be on Steve Westman’s show this Saturday, November 7, at 11 am Eastern/8 am Pacific. We’ll be talking about this very big week in reissues and lots of other things… you’ll just have to tune in to see exactly what’s in store. Go to Westman’s YouTube channel here to watch the livestream on Saturday, or catch up with us there anytime later. And while you’re there, subscribe to his channel, as it has some stuff coming up that you won’t want to miss.

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With the song and dance out of the way, let’s get into the week.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Origins 1971–1978; No Sleep Til L.A. [UMe]

Marking a half-century since the inauguration of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Origins 1971–1978 box set documents the shaping of the band over several years in the 1970s. The 5-LP set includes the first two Heartbreakers albums—1976’s Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and 1978’s You’re Gonna Get It!, newly remixed by Petty archivist/engineer Ryan Ulyate—and also comes with a new LP of early Petty material titled No Sleep Til L.A., featuring his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch (whose ranks also included future Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench), his ill-fated sessions as a solo artist for Shelter Records, and a smattering of Heartbreakers outtakes from both the first and second albums. LP number four contains a live radio show recorded at the Record Plant in Sausalito in 1977, and the fifth LP is one-sided, with five additional outtakes and left turns. The compilation is essentially the cream of the crop of these formative years, and it’s well presented and executed, with a beautiful box that includes an 88-page book, a Blu-ray with Atmos and hi-res stereo, and a DVD of their 1978 appearance on the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test. Everything sounds fabulous, and Ulyate’s remixes of the first two albums are superb, although the vinyl was pressed at GZ Media and, in my case, falls a bit short of perfect. I’ll have my full review up here soon. The No Sleep Til L.A. LP is also available separately.

Bob Dylan & The Rolling Thunder Revue: Fort Worth, TX 1976 [Columbia/Legacy] 

The second-best thing to happen in the news this week was the photo op Bob Dylan had with the pope in Vatican City, where the American bard decided to wear a black hoodie and keep his hood up the entire time. Just amazing stuff from good ol’, weird ol’ Bob. On a more musical note, Dylan is dropping a 39-CD box set that includes every existing live tape from 1976 during the second half of his Rolling Thunder Revue, the traveling roadshow that included Joan Baez, T-Bone Burnett, Bob Neuwirth, Mick Ronson, and others. Most of these are from soundboard tapes, not multitracks, but one of the multitracked shows is being released on vinyl in full: the concert from Fort Worth, Texas, on May 16, 1976. Some of this show was used for the ’76 live album Hard Rain, but the bulk of the 3-LP set is unreleased until now. Perhaps coincidentally, Sony is also repressing a stack of albums from the Dylan catalog this week: 1970’s Self Portrait; 1973’s outtakes collection Dylan; the 1974 live album recorded with the Band, Before the Flood; 1975’s classic The Basement Tapes, most of which was recorded with the Band in 1967; 1978’s live album At Budokan; 1985’s Empire Burlesque; 1986’s Knocked Out Loaded; and the 1994 comp Greatest Hits Volume 3. There’s also a green-vinyl version of 1976’s Desire—which kicked off the whole Rolling Thunder era—coming next week.

Devo: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! [Mobile Fidelity]

In the first of a potential series of Devo releases, Mobile Fidelity has prepared a 2-LP 45 RPM version of the Akron, Ohio, band’s 1978 album, the hugely influential Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, which vaulted the group to the forefront of the American post-punk scene. The album is thorny, harsh, and angular but also irresistibly catchy, a blend that Devo would go on to hone over their long career. Recorded with producer Brian Eno at Conny Plank’s studio in Cologne, Germany, the album metabolized art-rock, punk, and krautrock influences and turned them into something bracing and futuristic. This MoFi pressing is sourced from a DSD 256 transfer of the master tape, cut to two LPs by Krieg Wunderlich, and the tip-on gatefold is numbered, although I don’t believe the numerical limit of the pressing has been stated. The new 45 RPM edition goes head-to-head against Rhino High Fidelity’s single-LP pressing from last December, so it will be interesting to compare the two. MoFi also has Devo’s 1979 follow-up, Duty Now for the Future, in the works.

Lucinda Williams: Essence [Lost Highway]

After toiling as a cult act through the ’80s and early ’90s, Lucinda Williams had a major breakthrough with her 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, one of the finest singer/songwriter records of the decade. Her follow-up, 2001’s Essence, was nearly its equal, with splendid tunes like “Steal Your Love,” “Lonely Girls,” and the title track showcasing an emotionally darker, more obsessive side to Williams’s craft. Played with a crack session team that included Jim Keltner and Charlie Sexton, Essence is both languid and tense, with alt-country and folk shimmying up alongside blues-rock and slow-burn Southern soul. The album was released on vinyl only once, in 2016 as a double vinyl set; it makes its much-needed return this week, albeit as a 25th-anniversary single LP on pink vinyl that spreads the album’s 50 minutes over two sides of vinyl. With a well-cut lacquer, this shouldn’t be cause for concern, as the album converses in quiet steam rather than room-rattling fireworks.

Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again; Death Cab for Cutie: Plans [Analogue Productions Atlantic 75 Series]

Analogue Productions’ long-winded Atlantic 75 series has entered the home stretch, with just a few titles left to press of a 75-album series that was launched more than three years ago. This week we’re getting Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 1982 soft-rock album Daylight Again, which I don’t think anyone would confuse with the super-trio’s finest hour but has a sparkling, early-’80s audio sheen that should sound nice via the Chris Bellman–mastered vinyl. And Death Cab for Cutie’s 2005 album Plans was cut from digital by Kevin Gray, its sharp, glistening production marking the Washington State indie band’s major-label debut and most mature statement up to that point; without having heard it, I suspect this new pressing will sound awfully impressive. As with the rest of the Atlantic 75 series, both were cut at 45 RPM and pressed to two LPs by Quality Record Pressings, with tip-on gatefold jackets. I believe all that’s left for Analogue Productions to release on vinyl from this series is CSNY’s Deja Vu, the first two Buffalo Springfield albums, and Genesis’s Foxtrot. Will they actually come in 2027? Well, that year is already looking a lot brighter than expected, so I’m feeling optimistic. Foxtrot in 2027!

George Martin: Off the Beatle Track; Help!; And I Love Her [Rhino/Parlophone]

In between Beatles recording sessions, producer George Martin also put together three albums of orchestral pop under his own name, and this week Rhino/Parlophone would like to reintroduce you to them: 1964’s Off the Beatle Track, 1965’s Help!, and 1966’s And I Love Her. There are Beatle songs on all of them, although the third album, And I Love Her, has cover songs by other acts as well. Martin’s instrumental arrangements inhabit a fizzy, colorful world located somewhere between pop, jazz, and classical, and his inventive voicings and arrangements should sound pretty darn swell on these reissues, which were remastered by George’s son Giles Martin (almost certainly from digital). These are not available in Rhino’s webstore yet, so you may need to hit your local to pick these up, or navigate the vast waters of the Amazon, which I won’t link to.

Black Cat Bones: Barbed Wire Sandwich [Decca Nova/Fontana]

This British blues act’s ranks included folks who went on to form Free, Leaf Hound, and Foghat, and this heavy blues stomper from 1970 marks the only album recorded in their lifespan. It was one of only a couple dozen released on Decca’s Nova imprint and originals go for vast sums today, as you might imagine. Fontana is reissuing it with liner notes from Richard Morton Jack; as to why it’s not part of Fontana’s own Thousand Club line further adds to that strange series’ beguilement. Nevertheless, it’s a nice turn of events to have this mega-rare slab back on vinyl.

Jazz Alley

Buckle up, because this is the busiest week in Jazz Alley history, folks. Let’s get hip and see what’s on the make. 

First up, the Parisian reissue masters at Wewantsounds have prepped a 1977 live set from Don Cherry. Sunrise: Live in Ypsilanti, MI, 1977 features the avant-garde trumpetist performing with Collin Walcott, Leon Thomas, and members of the ensemble Oregon, and the 2-LP set comes with an eight-page booklet and mastering by David Hachour at Coloursound. That’s not the only previously unreleased performance making waves this week: The much-anticipated and -discussed The Tiberi Tapes, featuring nonprofessional recordings of John Coltrane made in New York and Philly in the early ’60s by saxophonist/fan Frank Tiberi, comes out as a 4-LP set featuring highlights from Tiberi’s 26 hours of tapes, with the complete archive released as a USB drive in a limited edition of 750. While of undeniable historic import and featuring incredible musicianship, these tapes are really quite crude-sounding, so make sure you are aware of how sonically compromised they are before taking the plunge.

That’s not the only Coltrane of the week. Verve’s Record Club is releasing Chasin’ the Trane, a 1962 live set from Copenhagen that has circulated on bootlegs; this first official release is only available to Verve Record Club subscribers. Over at Sony, they’re releasing a massive 9-LP box with everything Coltrane recorded with Miles Davis for the label, including the albums Kind of Blue, ’Round About Midnight, Miles and Monk at Newport, and other very famous and well-known jazz LPs. Impressively, it was cut from analog tape by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, and a 2-LP abridgement (probably not cut from tape) is also available. These sets accompany the centennial years of both Davis and Coltrane and the bigger box is essentially a reissue (with new mastering) of a 2000 set that was released on Mosaic with digital sources.

Fontana’s British Jazz Explosion series has two new releases landing this week. Henry Lowther Band’s Child Song was first released on Deram in 1970; the multi-instrumentalist performed on sessions for Nick Drake, Elton John, Talk Talk, and many others, but on this album he fronts an ensemble of languid, meditative, progressive jazz. Also, Michael Garrick’s first four albums for Argo Records—1970’s The Heart Is a Lotus, 1971’s Mr Smith’s Apocalypse, 1972’s Home Stretch Blues, and 1974’s Troppo—are being reissued in a 4-LP box called Voyages: The Argo Studio Albums Vol. 1. The set was cut from analog tape at Abbey Road and documents a crucial participant in the British jazz scene of the ’70s. It’s great to see reissues like these and those from Analogue October preserve this overlooked jazz scene, which remains very little known to American listeners.

Craft/Acoustic Sounds’ Moodsville series is popping off this week as well, with three reissues of titles first released on the Prestige sublabel in 1960: Moodsville Volume 4 by Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis with Shirley Scott; Moodsville 7: At Ease with Coleman Hawkins by (naturally) Coleman Hawkins; and Moodsville 9 by the Tommy Flanagan Trio. All three feature low-key, easygoing jazz on lacquers cut from analog tape by Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab and vinyl pressed at QRP.

Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela’s collaborative album from 2020, Rejoice (stemming from sessions the pair recorded in 2010), is back on multicolored vinyl this week from World Circuit Records. Real Gone Music has repressed two Rudolph Johnson albums originally released on Black Jazz Records: 1971’s Spring Rain and 1973’s The Second Coming, both on colored vinyl. And Verve Records have bundled up all of the recordings Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong did together for Cheek to Cheek: The Complete Duet Recordings, a 7-LP box set that includes their classic albums Ella and Louis (1956), Ella and Louis Again (1957), Porgy and Bess (1959), and other outtakes and stray recordings.

And wait, there are two new Tone Poets this week as well? Whew. Blue Note’s got a nice pair for us: Hank Mobley’s 1966 album Dippin’, which features trumpetist Lee Morgan alongside Mobley’s tenor sax on a groovy set ladled with boogaloo and bossa nova. Also up is Jimmy Smith’s 1959 album The Sermon!, featuring the classic side-long title track. Both were cut from tape by Kevin Gray and pressed at RTI. 

OTHER REISSUES OF NOTE:
(*star denotes inclusion in this week’s paid-subscriber playlist)

Aterciopelados: La Pipa de la Paz [Sony US Latin]
*Bad Brains: Are You Ready: The First Studio Recording (Inner Ear: March 1979) [Trust]
Bad Suns: Disappear Here [Vagrant]
Jorge Ben: Ben é Samba Bom [Destination Moon]
*Black Tape for a Blue Girl: The Rope [Projekt]
Blu & Exile: Below the Heavens [Dirty Science]
Andrea Bocelli: Rarities [Decca]
*Billy Bragg: Brewing Up with Billy Bragg; Talking with the Taxman About Poetry; Workers Playtime [Cooking Vinyl]
*Alejandro Bravo: Alejandro Bravo [Numero]
Garth Brooks: Double Live [AMS]
Ana Caram: Bossa Nova [Chesky]
Chayanne: Chayanne; Tiempo de Vals; Provocame; Volver a Nacer [Sony Latin]
Ray Charles: Spirit of Christmas [Tangerine]
Chip E: The Architect of House: Chicago 1984–88 Volume 2: Unreleased Jack [Still Music]
CocoRosie: Noah’s Ark [Touch & Go]
*Cracker: Greenland [Cooking Vinyl]|
*Culture: International Herb [Abraham]
D’Arcangelo: Eksel [Lapsus]
Desmond Dekker: Rude Boy Ska [Burning Sounds]
Dwarves: Horror Stories [Hey Suburbia]
The Electric Chairs: The Electric Chairs [Radiation Reissues]
Evanescence: The Open Door [Craft]
Father John Misty: I Love You, Honeybear (1-LP) [Sub Pop]
The Gallows: Orchestra of Wolves; Grey Britain [Reprise/WEA]
Serge Gainsbourg: Confidentiel [Destination Moon]
Joao Gilberto: Brazil’s Brilliant [Destination Moon]
Girlschool: Tokyo Breakdown 1982 [Cleopatra]
Golden Earring: Face It [Music on Vinyl]
Macy Gray: Stripped [Chesky]
Dave Grusin: The Goonies soundtrack [Varèse Sarabande]
Markus Guentner: In Moll [Black Knoll Editions]
Herbie Hancock: Sextant [Music on Vinyl]
Carey Harris & Michael Orr: Spread Love [Mr Bongo]
Dick Hieronymous & Alan Oldfield: The Forest soundtrack [Mystic Vault]
Allan Holdsworth: Live at Yoshi’s [Music on Vinyl]
Howlin’ Wolf: Howlin’ Wolf [Destination Moon]
*Mike Hurley: First Songs [Smithsonian Folkways]
Himiko Kikuchi: Flashing; Reverse It; Sinra Banshou; Sevilla Breeze [Teichiku]
Kimbra: Vows [Real Gone Music]
*Kiss: Rock and Roll Over [UMe]
*Miranda Lambert: Platinum; The Weight of These Wings; Wildcard; Palomino [Sony]
Valerie Lemercier: Chante [Tricatel]
Dario Marianelli: Pride and Prejudice soundtrack [Decca]
Marvelous Kid: Immanuel’s Manual [Seelie Court]
Mew: And the Glass Handed Kites [Music on Vinyl]
*George Michael: The Faith Tour (2-LP & 3-LP versions) [Sony]
Ennio Morricone: Autostop Rosso Sangue soundtrack [CAM Sugar]
*Motörhead: Orgasmatron [Sanctuary]
Munly J Munly: Jimmy Carter Syndrome [Svart]
Yuji Ono: Isn’t It Lupintic? [Sillitoe]
Jorge Pardo: Afrodelico Peruvian Soul [Shima]
Ptolomy Psycon: Loose Capacitator 10” [Record Collector Magazine]
Raison d’Etre & Troum: Xibipiio: In and Out of Experience [Cyclic Law]
Ramjac Corporation: 88–92 It Is What It Was [Musique Pour la Danse]
Republica: Republica [Sony]
*Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure [Universal]
Nanaco Sato: Lust [Gearbox]
The Matthew Shipp Duo with William Parker: Zo [ESP-Disk]
Skid Row: 40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row [BMG]
Dusty Springfield: Home Again: The Complete United Artists Recordings [Real Gone Music]
Sufjan Stevens: Worst Christmas Ever [Secretly]
Jah Stone: The Messiah; The General [Radiation Roots]
Charles Sullivan: Genesis [Inner City]
Masayoshi Takanaka: Takanaka; Super Takanaka Live! [Universal Music Japan]
*Trapeze: Trapeze [Deko]
Ike & Tina Turner: Dynamite! [Destination Moon]
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Couldn’t Stand the Weather [Music on Vinyl]
*War: The Vinyl 1971–1975 [Avenue]
*Roger Waters: Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale [Music on Vinyl]
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Phantom of the Opera: The Andrew Lloyd Webber 2026 Mix [The Other Songs]
*XTC: 45 (Vol. 1) [Ape House]
Lester Young: Lester Leaps In: Live at Birdland 1951–1952 [Liberation Hal] (wide after RSD)
Young Widows: Settle Down City [Temporary Residence]
Various Artists: American Grave: Gothic Punk & Death Rock USA [Futurismo]
Various Artists: El Son De Congo: The Rise of Roger Izeidi [Planet Ilunga]
Various Artists: Menace II Society soundtrack [Music on Vinyl]